Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a $35 paycheck as their excuse, hundreds of Harvard students crammed their way into the Lowell House Junior Common Room yesterday with hopes of landing a job as an extra in "A Small Circle of Friends" which United Artists and MGM will film on the Harvard campus this spring...
...gamblers lost an average of $438,500 a day on the tables and machines. By June the daily drop reached $535,000, and security analysts estimate that the figure is now running as much as $700,000 a day, three times the revenues of either Caesars Palace or the MGM Grand, the biggest casinos in Las Vegas...
...jobs, such as playing "bad cocktail piano" at a dim midtown club. After appearing in a few stock and live television productions, he got a screen test with Director Joshua Logan; another novice movie actor, Jane Fonda, auditioned with Beatty. Nothing came of it, but three months later MGM offered Beatty a five-year contract at $400 a week. He moved to Hollywood and, at 22, sized up the pitfalls of the studio system in record time. Without ever unpacking his bags, he borrowed money to buy his way out of MGM. Back in New York, he landed a supporting...
...about a hundred of them-nice tall ones or they'll look like pygmies on a three-story-high stage-and about four dozen terrific male dancers too. We need to have somebody wearing white tie, right? Then we get him to take off on some good old MGM movies, say a couple of musicals, an old Gable film, maybe an Astaire number...
...L.B.M.: Simple enough, simple enough. It'll be just like our old movies-as lavish as we can make it. as corny as they can take it and just as great as it always was. We'll take them full circle: call the casino MGM Grand Hotel and name the show Hello, Hollywood, Hello. Why not? Somebody has to revive Hollywood, even if they've got to go to Reno...